Vetted Business Development Professionals

“Former Division I athlete with 30 years in basketball and 20 years building a career training and mentoring players, including multi-season youth coaching and recruiting. Brings a character-first recruiting philosophy shaped by mentorship from high-profile coaches/players and is eager to create on-camera/social content to help families navigate the recruiting process.”

“Growth/partnerships leader with experience across Hootsuite, SMART Technologies, and Spinify, building partner ecosystems and GTM programs tied directly to pipeline and revenue. Notably created agency partnerships that drove 21% of total revenue and ran a data-backed self-serve SMB experiment that produced an 18.4% lift in conversations.”

“Founder building an agentic AI-based low-code platform for B2B enterprise applications, validated through enterprise client conversations and delivered via rapid paid MVP/POCs. Platform has seen production traction (6–7 apps, 1000+ daily users) and includes capabilities like QR scanning integrated with ERP/PLM systems. Experienced in business development and client relationships, with a pragmatic, ROI- and speed-focused approach to product and GTM under tight capital constraints.”

“Founder/product manager building an operational longevity nutrition startup with a 500k community, growing primarily through organic social content and rapid weekly funnel experiments. Has launched a detox bundle via a major partnership with Hurom (expected to drive ~$500k ARR) and is building a pipeline of partnerships plus planned corporate sales; preparing to raise $500k–$1M and applying to accelerators.”

“Program/operations leader with Booz Allen Hamilton experience turning around a near-canceled Millennium Challenge Account Indonesia procurement-training contract by implementing train-the-trainer, mentorship, and KPI/dashboard-driven execution. Currently supports the CFO organization at Berkeley Lab, translating high-level strategy into people/process/technology/governance plans with an executive operating cadence.”

“Public-sector-focused consultant with hands-on ownership of outbound/ABM, lead gen, and GTM strategy for early-stage and pre-launch products (including edtech). Built multi-channel campaigns spanning SEO/web copy, email, conferences, and direct outreach to state/district leaders, and created an Airtable onboarding system that cut prospect research time by 33%.”

“Founder/director of the music and event production company Tuned In, personally driving outbound BD to book underground LA talent and produce 25 events, including a major Lunar New Year collaboration with Alice Longyu Gao. Also ran multi-channel voter/community outreach for the Frankie Carrillo campaign (door knocking, 1,000+ SMS) and built automation tools (Apple widget; AI image-to-CSV workflow at Live Nation) to improve operational efficiency.”

“Strategy consulting and business operations professional with climate-tech and climate VC experience (Avnos, Earth Foundry, Strategy&). Led cross-functional work to update a techno-economic analysis and produce a pilot proposal for direct air capture, contributing to a won engagement; also served as Chief of Staff to GPs, streamlining diligence, dealflow, CRM, and LP reporting to boost executive productivity.”

“Sales/business development candidate with hands-on outbound experience targeting Amazon FBA sellers, combining cold calling and LinkedIn outreach with event-based lead generation at seller conferences. Uses AI tools (Notion, Gemini, ChatGPT) and company research to tailor scripts and messaging based on a prospect’s growth stage and needs, with a focus on SMEs seeking Amazon reimbursement services.”

“Early-stage startup operator who served as Chief of Staff and VP of Partnership Operations at Getlabs, simultaneously driving capital raising, rebuilding the sales org, and optimizing customer success processes for revenue expansion. Strong in executive alignment and operating cadence design (OKR-driven communication, structured exec meetings, evergreen decision docs) while balancing hands-on operations with strategic capital planning.”

“Business Development Officer (Sales Development) with SaaS experience across healthcare and financial industries, combining multi-channel outbound (calls/email/video/LinkedIn) with structured BANTR qualification. Reported strong activity-to-meeting conversion metrics and meeting-to-closed-won outcomes at Coface, and helped advance a complex 7-month deal (Okapi AI) from first touch to signature while maintaining rigorous Salesforce hygiene.”

“Commercial leader currently in building management systems/DDC controllers with a focus on the data center vertical; previously worked at Oracle. Has negotiated reserved-capacity style agreements in telecom (including a Vodafone Group deal using a retail-minus model) and has experience selling into Federal Government and Defense by shaping RFP outcomes through stakeholder alignment.”

“Growth-creative marketer in a club/sports-style environment focused on premium offerings, running structured creative experiments across multiple clubs/markets. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (≈20% lower CPA, ≈12% higher ROAS) by shifting from brand-led to value-forward messaging and translating channel-level performance insights into modular, rapid-iteration creative systems.”

“Operations leader with repeated experience integrating acquired firms into a larger platform, running top-to-bottom operational reviews and driving transitions to new policies, procedures, and systems using structured project management (ClickUp/monday.com). Known for building accountability cadences and coaching leaders—often shifting KPI visibility and leadership approach to improve consistency across revenue, billability, A/R, and other core metrics.”

“Talent Acquisition Operations leader who has managed teams up to 10 and owns end-to-end TA ops areas (strategy, selection, employer branding, and process/tech optimization). Recently standardized fragmented hiring by moving to a one-funnel approach with competency weighting and recruiter triage, already improving time-to-fill. Led Gem implementation/integration and uses ATS analytics (SmartRecruiters) plus post-hire performance data to validate sourcing and selection quality.”

“Transformation/PMO leader who launched the Bear Stearns program management office for a firm-wide business transformation, building governance (steering/ops committees), communications, and an issue-resolution system to align five parallel teams. Known as a highly discreet trusted advisor who improves executive effectiveness through delegation systems, and who can influence senior leaders via storytelling and ROI framing—while also advocating strongly for teams on deadlines and workload.”

“Corporate development / corporate strategy M&A professional from a small boutique consulting firm (Aleris Acquisitions) who also owned internal ops improvements. Led the shift from manual spreadsheet-based tracking to HubSpot with pipeline scoring/prioritization, created enablement materials to drive adoption, and regularly supported founders in tech/tool decision-making through structured presentations and demos.”

“COO experience at an early-stage technology company (CyberAlliance) focused on building scalable operating systems: SMART goal-setting by function, KPI-based performance management, monthly business reviews, and a structured stage-gate product introduction process. Also has hands-on experience rapidly adapting support operations to meet new customer 24x7 monitoring requirements while planning for scale.”

“Sales development and event-sales professional currently at Yondr, blending inbound lead management with outbound prospecting to drive 8–10 meetings/week and ~50% inbound conversion. Helped lift department revenue 35% and built new sponsorship guidelines that secured strategic partnerships and referral-driven growth. Has experience supporting higher-value healthcare-sector deals ($125K–$750K) and managing longer sales cycles end-to-end.”

“Founder of an early-stage molecular diagnostics startup currently pursuing an MVP and awaiting NSF feedback on an SBIR/STTR grant. During COVID, assessed roughly a dozen diagnostic/PPE technologies and worked with interdisciplinary teams (engineering, legal, MBA, and clinical trainees) to repurpose and patent 2–3 for commercialization.”

“Pre-seed founder (pre-product) building a new enterprise control layer for AI-enabled organizations focused on governed autonomy and decision-cycle compression; thesis formalized in their book "The Decision Velocity Era." Former CEO of Evaluation Solutions who built an internal proprietary operating system, proved it in live operations, commercialized it as SaaS, and enabled growth to $120M+ in contracted revenue.”

“Startup founder who co-founded Boogy, an LLM-based professional matchmaking product that scaled to 37k+ users in under 7 months by shifting GTM from individual onboarding to accelerator/VC partnerships (driving 5x engagement). After Boogy was acquired, joined Dossy as co-founder, hiring global growth interns and running LinkedIn-led GTM while fundraising.”

“Former Chelsea youth academy player who moved to the U.S. on a soccer scholarship (University of Akron, later Cal Poly) before multiple ACL injuries ended his playing career. Transitioned into 6 years of coaching in the San Luis Obispo area across club (U12-U16), high school, and college environments, with demonstrated player evaluation/development success. Also brings relationship-building skills from sales and hands-on experience creating/filming music video content for social media.”